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Alemseged Gebrehiwot Weldeyesus¹, Jacek Gondzio^1,2

¹1School of Mathematics and Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD UK.

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This study introduces an efficient primal-dual interior point method for plastic truss layout optimization. The method speeds up computation for large-scale problems by reducing system size and using warm-starts.

Keywords:

Interior point methods Iterative methods for linear systems Linear programming Truss structures

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Area of Science:

Structural Engineering
Computational Mechanics
Optimization

Background:

Plastic truss layout optimization problems are computationally intensive, especially with dense ground structures.
Existing methods struggle with the large scale of these optimization problems.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a computationally efficient method for solving large-scale linear programming problems in plastic truss layout optimization.
To approximate solutions for dense ground structures using a member adding technique.

Main Methods:

Utilized a ground structure approach for truss layout.
Employed a member adding technique, analogous to column generation, to create smaller sub-problems.
Developed a specialized primal-dual interior point method tailored to exploit the algebraic structure of these sub-problems.
Reduced large linear systems using algebraic properties and solved them with iterative methods.
Implemented a warm-start strategy for sub-problems exhibiting similarity.

Main Results:

The specialized primal-dual interior point method significantly reduces the size of linear equation systems.
Iterative methods efficiently solve the reduced systems.
The warm-start strategy accelerates convergence within fewer interior point iterations.
Numerical experiments demonstrate the method's efficiency and robustness.

Conclusions:

The proposed primal-dual interior point method offers a computationally efficient solution for plastic truss layout optimization.
The technique effectively handles large-scale problems arising from dense ground structures.
The method provides a robust and accelerated approach to achieving optimal truss designs.